The bar chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given bar chart illustrates a comparison of the average weekly income allocated for disbursement by households in two specific years, 1968 and 2018. Units are measured in Looking from an

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perspective, it is readily apparent that the spending priority in 1968 went on food

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the top belonged to expenditure for leisure aspect in 2018. The provided spending categories experienced both upward and the other downward tendencies

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only household goods still remain stable in the 50-year period.

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observed in the categories that experienced an upward trend, there was a substantial increase comprising more than twice as much as the income expended for the leisure aspect per week that reached a peak

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of the period.

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, weekly salary for housing items made a virtually twofold jump, which accounted for a 10% to 20% rise during the interval.

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, the share of the average wage per week paid for transportation upturned by roughly 7% as the former. With regards to the remaining negative section, it is instantaneous that food demand plummeted from the precedence (priority) of families' expenses (35% in 1968) to the third rank after a half-century.

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, clothing and footwear and personal goods both spectacularly decreased nearly two times as the former (about 5% and less, respectively). Following that, there was a minimal drop in expenditures on fuel and power expenses, and the share of these three categories mostly emerged as the least preferred items in the statistic over the years shown.